SideFX Houdini Master— the powerful program for modelling and creation of the special effects, simultaneously being a functional package 3D schedules.



The program allows to make difficult shots without necessity of use of additional plug-ins or group of programmers. Film production can count on help Houdini Master in creation of tremendous video-effects and animation. Among innovations of the tenth version it is necessary to note possibility of use of the several computers united in a local network, for imitation of behaviour of the liquids, new tools Pyro FX for smoke and fire creation, technology Interactive Photorealistic Rendering (IPR) for fast viewing of changes which are brought in illumination of three-dimensional scenes, work with the three-dimensional data. Houdini Master differs presence of tools for creation of dynamics and visual effects with particles. System requirements: Operating System Windows: Tested on Windows XP and Vista (32 and 64 bit) Mac OS X: Requires 64-bit Intel-based Mac with OS X v10.5 Leopard Linux: Ubuntu 7.10 Debian 3.1 and 4.0 (32 and 64-bit) RHEL 4 Fedora Core 6 Memory * 2 GB required * 2-4 GB + recommended * 4-6 GB + required for fluid simulations * Multiprocessor systems should be configured with additional RAM * Houdini supports multiprocessor compositing and rendering Processor * Recent generation 32 or 64-bit AMD or Intel processor (requires SSE or higher) * Houdini supports MMX and Streaming SIMD (SSE2) where present Disk Space * 500 MB required for installation Input Devices * 3 Button mouse required * Scroll wheel used where present * Wacom tablet recommended for Houdini’s brush-based tools Graphics Card * Workstation-class OpenGL graphics card (such as NVidia and ATI) * Graphic Card drivers: NVidia: 169 or higher, ATI: 8.44 or higher. * Minimum resolution: 1024 x 768; Recommended resolution: 1920 x 1200 (widescreen) * Color depth of 16-bit + required with 32-bit + (“true colour”) recommended * Requires support for OpenGL 1.2 or later; Takes advantage of OpenGL 2.0 support if available * Hardware-accelerated OpenGL required for optimum performance * Performance may suffer with complex scenes on non-workstation graphics cards and on laptops * Integrated Intel graphic cards are not supported * Houdini does not require support for Direct3D (all viewports and interfaces use OpenGL) Other * Sound card and speakers/headset required for audio * Class C network (TCP/IP) recommended for floating licences * Network support required for offline simulation, batch processing and rendering * Internet browser required for connection to www.sidefx.com (Houdini Exchange and Forum) * Video encoder required for creating AVI/QT/etc. Features of the program: – Fast, intellectual and flexible work – New level of understanding – The control over tools – The friendly user interface – Polygonal modelling – NURBS modelling – Creation of geometry of objects – Additional tools for editing of movements – Procedural animation and editing of movements – Creation and editing of sounds – Management of light and shades – The integrated support of language Python – And many other possibilities